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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463477103321

Titolo

When the AK-47s fall silent : revolutionaries, guerillas, and the dangers of peace / / edited and translated by Timothy C. Brown ; [foreword by Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, California : , : Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University, , 2000

ISBN

0-8179-9843-8

0-8179-9848-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (353 p.)

Disciplina

972.84

Soggetti

Insurgency - El Salvador - History

Guerrillas - Nicaragua

Guerrillas - El Salvador

Revolutionaries - Nicaragua

Counterrevolutionaries - Nicaragua

Conflict management - Central America

Electronic books.

Nicaragua History Revolution, 1979 Personal narratives Congresses

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Title Page; Half Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Abbreviations; Foreword-Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 - ""¡Hijo de Puta! Why Did We Ever Fight?""; Part I Revolutionaries; Chapter 2 - José Obidio ""Pepe"" Puente Leoń, the Living Link; Chapter 3 - Alejandro Pérez Bustamante, Sandino's Bodyguard; Chapter 4 - Alejandro Martínez Sáenz, Comandante Martínez; Chapter 5 - Plutarco Elías Hernández Sancho, Comandante Marcial; Chapter 6 - José Eduardo Sancho Castañeda, Comandante Fermán Cienfuegos; Part II Guerrillas

Chapter 7 - Encarnación Baldivia Chavarria,Comandante TigrilloChapter 8 - Oscar Sobalvarro Garcia, Comandante Culebral Rubén; Chapter 9 - Saris Pérez, Angélica María; Chapter 10 - Salomón Osorno Coleman, Comandante Blass; Part III The Dangers of Peace; Chapter 11 -



Ambassador Myles R. R. Frechette, anAmerican Diplomat; Chapter 12 - Major General Ian Douglas, a United Nations General; Chapter 13 - Sergio Caramagna, an OAS Peacemaker; Chapter 14 - Timothy Charles Brown, Editor; Appendix; End Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The majority of Latin American revolutionaries and guerrillas have now laid down their weapons and opted to participate in that region's democratic processes. What brought about this transformation? When the AK-47s Fall Silent brings together for the first time many of these former Latin revolutionaries from both sides of the conflicts-who tell their own stories, in their own words.